People in Upheaval

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ID2889438
AuthorsScott Morgan (0000-0002-1171-1110), Scott C Morgan (0000-0002-6568-3346), Elisabeth Colsen
Year1988
Volume43
Issue1
Pages239
Publication date1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4663 • E-ISSN: 1957-7966
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1533129
OpenAlexW2323522357
LanguageEN
Citations received7

The 11 papers in this volume deal with massive population displacements a 20th century phenomenon. Some of the displaced go voluntarily as the search for jobs and a better material standard of living leads them to emigrate from rural areas to cities or across regional and national boundaries. Many are forcibly uprooted the unhappy consequence of major development projects because governments decide to redistribute populations or because of war or political upheaval. 1 theme running through these case studies is the interplay between hosts and newcomers. Lacey and Morgan focus their discussion on the responses of the hosts. Lacey deals with shifts in refugee policies since World War II while Morgan looks at an earlier period in American history when sentiment against immigrants became politicized. Another theme emphasizes the consequences of the growth of national and international agencies which now provide a major element in the environment with which refugees cope while in transit or on arrival in a new country. Whereas legal and illegal voluntary migrants who make their way to a new country or region usually avoid official agencies and rely upon kin and former neighbors who have already made the transition to ease their introduction to the new locality refugees find themselves both aided and trammeled by having to deal with the many agencies designed to work with them. The resettlement life cycle is another theme; it includes the processes of uprooting and readjustment. All migrants experience and use different strategies at different phases of this cycle as they cope with stress. Their strategies include drawing together kin and those from the smae localities into communities based on home ties and the strengthening of such communities through rituals that emphasize continuity with the past. Immigrants within such communities can emerge from the anonymity forced on them by a society that considers them merely members of a category and they again become indivduals with particular statuses which ensure their personal dignity

Geography · Political science · Migration and Labor Dynamics

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